The jury in the Aamir Siddiqi murder trial has heard further evidence about the police interviews of one of the teenager’s alleged killers.

The jury in the Aamir Siddiqi murder trial has heard further evidence about the police interviews of one of the teenager’s alleged killers.

Swansea Crown Court had previously heard that defendant Ben Hope wept after being arrested by police.

The jury had also previously heard that Mr Hope made a spontaneous comment on the way to the police station saying: “Jason was always calling for me, pressing the buzzer, I am not going to protect anyone. Jason did the murder.”

While at the police station Mr Hope is said to have made another unsolicited comment asking an officer if he knew anything about the car.

The court heard that Mr Hope then said he thought the car used was a silver Volvo, a Jeep and that he thought it was parked by the Adamsdown Bridge.

“Jason wanted to burn it, he wanted to change the plates,” the court heard that Mr Hope had said.

During the cross-examination of DC Deborah Zeraschi, who interviewed Mr Hope at the police station on a number of occasions, David Aubrey QC, defending for Mr Hope, put to her that Mr Hope had “volunteered two things to the police”.

He said the first was the allegation that Jason Richards “had done it” and the second was that a Volvo car was involved.

“He volunteered both of these pieces of information before he had any information given to him,” said Mr Aubrey.

“That is correct,” replied DC Zeraschi.

Mr Aubrey also drew the court’s attention to a clip from the videoed police interview of Mr Hope.

He told the jury to look at Mr Hope’s left arm and said: “We can see that there are apparently burn marks on his arm.”

“Ben had what appears to be blisters on his left arm,” said DC Zeraschi,

Mr Aubrey said Mr Hope had explained how the marks had been caused and said he had fallen asleep in front of a fire and had burnt his arm without realising it as he was in such a deep sleep.

In the cross-examination of DC Zeraschi by John Charles Rees QC, defending for Jason Richards, he suggested to the officer that she did not ask Mr Hope about his clothing for the first three interviews with him.

He said in the fourth police interview Mr Hope was asked questions about his clothing on the day Aamir was attacked such as “did you wash any of the clothing?” and “where is the clothing now?”, to which he answered ‘no comment’.

Mr Rees asked whether the ‘no comment’ stance was one that Mr Hope took for the rest of that interview which also covered topics such as the silver Volvo.

DC Zeraschi replied that it was.

Teenager Aamir was brutally stabbed when he opened the front door of his home in Ninian Road in April 2010.

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